drupagliassotti @ December 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Here’s a fascinating video associated with an article posted Dec. 12, 2008 in New Scientist on a reconstruction of Archimedes’ Antikythera mechanism, “a hand-wound clockwork device used to calculate the motions of the sun, moon and planets as seen from Earth, as well as to predict solar and lunar eclipses.”
Clockpunk.
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drupagliassotti @ November 30, 2008 # One Comment
Woo-hoo! Came in just under the wire this time, but I’m happy to have made it at all. This month was pretty hectic.
You can see my official NaNoWriMo page here, and my unofficial list of NaNoWriMo novels here, if you’d like to get an idea of my previous years’ attempts.
At 50,076 words, of course, Obstruction […]
drupagliassotti @ November 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet
(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest!
… Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.)
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drupagliassotti @ November 15, 2008 # 2 Comments
(Caveat: Anything I write during National Novel Writing Month is subject to significant change or deletion during the longer editing phase to follow! So don’t get too invested in any scene I quote here … this is “rough draft” at its roughest!
… Also, if you haven’t read Clockwork Heart, the text below contains SPOILERS.) […]
drupagliassotti @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Today I’m spending at home on a much-needed “writing day,” and while doing a little side research into Victorian-era tissue preservation chemicals — pre-formaldehyde — I ran across this fascinating website: Madame Talbot’s Victorian Lowbrow and Gothic Lowbrow. I’ve tagged this post as “steampunk,” even though what she offers on her site isn’t really steampunk; […]
drupagliassotti @ November 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Yesterday I didn’t get much written, as I’d rather expected, since I headed off to visit family around 12:30. I got home again around 7 p.m., but after fiddling around with a quick little home project, I decided that I’d rather wrap up Season 2 of Torchwood than write. Disc 4 featured more James […]
drupagliassotti @ October 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The chrononaut from the 19th century is photographed by the Goddess Athena (aka Hayley Woldseth), then barely escapes a horrid beast that attacks from behind.
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drupagliassotti @ October 29, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Last night I sat down with Torchwood Season 2 Disc 1, the long coat I’d bought over the summer that had a nicely steampunk look, a toolbox, a bunch of jewelry-making supplies, and a whole lot of broken pocketwatches. My goal was to create a vaguely steampunkish costume for Halloween, even though nobody at CLU […]
drupagliassotti @ October 26, 2008 # 2 Comments
Just as an aside, today I learned that Airship Ventures is going to start zeppelin tours over San Francisco Bay. I wasn’t planning to go up to the SF area next until 2009’s Yaoi-Con, but now I’m thinkin’ I may have to plan a trip sooner than that! I’ve flown in a hot air balloon, […]
drupagliassotti @ October 23, 2008 # One Comment
Those hot dry winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen. — Raymond […]